There are several major managed detection and response (MDR) companies to choose from. We’ve compared the main offerings of the best MDR providers to help you decide which is right for your organisation. Maybe it was a near miss, or a security team stretched too thin and drowning in alerts from dozens of tools. Whatever […]

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Your client is no longer just buying your security advice. They’re auditing whether you live by it.  That was a clear message from my exclusive interview with Heather MacDonald Alford, an MSP finance specialist and owner of Counting Creators.  Heather’s exactly the kind of customer MSPs should be paying attention to. She’s informed, commercially minded, and willing to challenge vendors to […]

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Most breaches don’t start with a vulnerability nobody knew about. They start with one nobody patched in time. Vulnerability exploitation is now the single biggest way attackers get into a network. It has overtaken stolen credentials for the first time in the 19-year history of Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report, with 31% of breaches now […]

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Claude Mythos, an AI model from Anthropic, has found 23,019 software vulnerabilities in the past month. Fewer than 1% of them have been patched. That gap is the story. Finding a vulnerability used to be the hard part, the thing that limited how fast software got fixed. AI just closed that gap to almost nothing. […]

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark, 1 July 2026 – Heimdal today announced the launch of MSP Onboarding Wizard, a new capability that helps managed service providers onboard Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) customers inside the Heimdal platform faster and with less manual work. Built for MSPs managing multiple Microsoft tenants, MSP Onboarding Wizard reduces customer onboarding from around […]

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AI has handed hackers a resource advantage. Winning it back means spending your own resources far more precisely, and that’s the strategy we call Dynamic Defense. The principle is simple. Contain the threat just enough, for just long enough, until the risk is removed. This piece shows how that works as a five-stage loop that […]

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AI has flipped the economics of cybersecurity in the attacker’s favor. For most of the last decade, defenders held the cost advantage, buying down their risk with a stack of largely static controls. That advantage is gone, and winning it back is the central problem facing every security team in 2026. I think the answer […]

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MSPs spend too much time talking to other MSPs and not enough time talking to the people they’re supposed to serve.  That’s Paul Croker’s view of some of the channel’s biggest growth problems.   While most industry events bring technology professionals together, they rarely put them in the same room as the business leaders making […]

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In May 2026 an attacker compromised a UK medical practice endpoint without delivering a single malicious file. They used PowerShell and the .NET compiler built into Windows to build a Remcos remote access trojan on the machine itself, so signature antivirus had no known sample to match. The thing that caught it was DNS filtering, […]

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At 06:34am on 2 June 2026, an attacker logged on to a customer’s network. In a single automated burst, they switched on remote desktop and created a rogue administrator account. And deleted the evidence behind them.  The intrusion reached 34 endpoints and was over in under ten seconds.  Heimdal Extended Threat Protection (XTP) and Ransomware […]

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London, UK, 16 June 2026 – Heimdal today published The State of AI Risk Management in 2026, a survey of 1,000 IT professionals across the United Kingdom and the United States. The report’s headline finding is a divide inside the same organizations: the closer a person sits to the day-to-day running of AI, the less […]

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Heimdal sysadmin Alex Panait spent weeks testing Claude Cowork inside the company. His verdict was blunt. It felt like onboarding a junior employee with no manager, no scoped access, and no clear accountability when something goes wrong. Except this one can delete your SharePoint. That is the uncomfortable reality behind autonomous AI desktop assistants. They […]

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Cybersecurity failures now happen beyond the OSI stack. Faulty governance, the human factor, and AI tools create new attack surfaces. After seven years working across cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and Zero Trust architecture, Jayal Yadav explains how we got here and what organizations still get wrong. “The original seven layers of the OSI model still matter. […]

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark, June 8, 2026 – Heimdal has achieved ISAE 3000 SOC 2 Type II certification for the sixth consecutive year, reflecting the company’s continued focus on operational security, accountability, and data protection. The 2026 audit covered the period from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026 and examined Heimdal’s controls across access management, data […]

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Key findings US executives are more than four times as confident as their own practitioners that AI risk is under control, 29% to 7%. The UK gap runs the same direction, 18% to 11%. The board’s view and the team’s view aren’t the same view. ChatGPT sits in 7 in 10 IT estates and Microsoft […]

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Over the last 10-15 years, the cybersecurity scene has gotten increasingly complex, as organizations adopt new technology and hackers evolve more innovative ways to target them. At the same time, data protection and compliance have become much more stringent across the world. Nowhere is this more true than in Europe. Today’s organizations have an ever-increasing […]

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COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, 12 May 2026 — Heimdal’s managed SOC processes three million alerts a month. In the year ahead, fewer than 500 of those, less than 0.02%, are expected to need a human analyst. That’s the forecast from Heimdal founder Morten Kjaersgaard, based on the trajectory of AI Wingman SOC as it absorbs the bulk […]

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark, 21 April 2026 — Heimdal today unveiled the next phase of its AI strategy, expanding AI Wingman with three new layers – Assist, Triage and SOC – alongside the introduction of Third-Party AI Containment. Together, these capabilities build on Heimdal’s existing AI-powered protection and give organisations a clearer way to manage AI safely, speed […]

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Although Cyber Security is often seen as technical and maybe even dull, it has many similarities to our day-to-day life. In this blog I call out one of the most important – You Only Know What You’ve Got When Its Gone. Let me start by putting this statement into context in the current chapter of […]

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Copenhagen, Denmark – 18 March 2026 – Heimdal has appointed Elovade as its official distributor in the Nordic region. The move gives MSPs and resellers across Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and Finland direct access to Heimdal’s consolidated cybersecurity platform through a local value-added distributor. Most Nordic MSPs are running disconnected security tools: separate vendors for […]

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